The deal would provide money for the VA to lease new buildings, which it calls community-based outpatient clinics. It authorizes $7 million for a facility in Lincoln.

Specifics aren't yet clear, and Congress still has to vote on the conference report.

The VA's Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System already has several clinic locations, including one in Lincoln.

The deal -- brokered after days of negotiation between the House and Senate -- does not address leasing of hospitals. As KETV NewsWatch 7 was first to report, a change in VA policy regarding "build-lease" of hospitals could net Omaha veterans a new hospital before the VA finds the money to begin construction.